As far as ideas about book design: I have plenty. But I also try and let people do their jobs.

I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

I have a very basic notion of the structure the book might have - that's mostly it. The rest is luck and happenstance.

I believe my friends think I'm funny. All the books are full of humor. Maybe it is a quiet sort of humor that masquerades as not-much-at-all. It is certainly easy to miss.

Clarity is the most important thing to me - in thinking - and so I try in the books to be as clear as possible.

I begin with an image of some sort, just as if you saw something out of a window, and then went to the window to see what it was.

I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is.